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periods after pregnancy.
From: meryl (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 29 Feb 2000 07:17:48 -0600 (CST)
I recently had a baby (10 weeks ago)Do your periods become heavier after
having a child. Will my periods settle down?
At Fri, 7 Nov 1997, B. wrote:
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>I had a tubal 2 years agoI, and now am post-menopausal. Befo)re the tubal
>I was not on B.C. and had regular periods.(Like clock work). I felt
>great. (They did the tubal in mid cycle) After the tubal I had one more
>regular period, then they became very spotty and irreglar. By 8 months
>after I was in the Dr.s office because I was missing 3 periods in a row.
>By 2 years after I was in climatic menopause. (flashes, memory loss
>(fuzzy logic) Loss of balance, loss of libeto, my skin, especially my
>face, felt like dry paper, brest mass decressed, heart palpatations,
>etc...) I felt like shit. My FSH levels were almost 92 and my LH levels
>were almost 27. I was 34 when I had the tubal.
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>I'm now on hormones.
>
>This is what is called "Post tubal syndrome" Bascily an imblance in
>hormone levels, or shutdown of the ovaries because of decressed blood
>flow to the ovaries from the tubal process.
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>Not all women have the syndrome, but lots do... Too many to be ignored.
>Some women have heavy cramping and bleeding (gushing and flooding), due
>to the egg trying to "break past" the closed tube, and partly due to an
>imbalnce in hormones that the ovaries are not able to produce because
>2/3's of the blood flow to them have been cut off.
>
>They don't tell you about this in the little booket they give you. I
>have been searching the web for information and I know I was misinformed
>about the tubal procedure. You can find some information about "post
>tubal syndrome" in the menopause pages of the net. This is after the
>fact. I never thought of looking there when I was researching the tubal
>thing. It should be posted with information about tubals.
>
>The tubal business is BIG. Lots of money to do them, and to undo them.
>(and most insurance companies pay to get them done.) The medical
>community who does these procedures would probably not agree with this,
>but who checks on them and their patients? They maybe see how many women
>with this? and they say, you must have happened to go through pre-mature
>menopause, or your cycle was "due" to change... but the tubal isn't
>related. They must think we are really stupid!!! It's hard to dismiss
>I'm a women, and will go through menopause someday, but I will also die
>someday. Having an "elective" procedure that would cause one or the
>other to happen earlier than it needs to happen is not right. It's time
>that this information become public knowlege.
>
>I wonder how many other are out there? Anyone who wants to e-mail me
>about the subject feel free to do so.
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